The RB Leipzig Courier
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
RB Leipzig bid $32.2M for Kaishu Sano
The offer went to Mainz 05 this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
RB Leipzig bid $24.7M for Saïd El Mala
The offer went to Köln this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: RB Leipzig walk away from Luiz Júnior
$24.2M was the most the club would pay and Villarreal were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Can Uzun
RB Leipzig asked and Eintracht Frankfurt said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
RB Leipzig say no — this time
The offer from Bayern Munich for Christoph Baumgartner was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
David Raum wants more than RB Leipzig are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Christoph Baumgartner stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Christoph Baumgartner and RB Leipzig agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
RB Leipzig go back to the board over Kaishu Sano
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $31.6M — a club that wants Kaishu Sano enough to be asked twice.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at RB Leipzig
Ota Yamamoto was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
In brief
- Market Martin Maier steps up from the RB Leipzig academy
- Market RB Leipzig promote Dominik Bauer from within
- The dugout Christoph Baumgartner asks for a word with the manager